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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Smoking was prohibited "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready cash was so difficult to attain that the term bills were often paid in kind, butter, cheese, fruit, etc., being the commodities offered in exchange for education...
Harvard is surely the last place where one would expect to find a premium set on laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that...
...denies that skating is one of the most beneficial of out-door sports, and many men who cannot spare the time to go as far as Fresh Pond, only to find that there is little or no clear ice, under the new regime would spend much more time out of doors, whereby the general health of the college would be greatly improved...
Since the publication of the communication to the CRIMSON with reference to the wretehed state of the basement at Weld, the college authorities have had plumbers investigating the difficulty. They find that some of the pipes were in a rather bad condition, but they have now been thoroughly repaired...
...selected from the academic departments alone." As this was the first time Yale had shown any inclination to play Harvard, the challenge was eagerly accepted, although it was really a Greek gift, the Yale nine having been meeting with great success during the spring. At this time I find the earliest mention on record of that time-honored lie: "Vassar Female College has a base-ball club and ten boat clubs...